4/330 server problems

[Jeff Giacobbe]

I've been having some strange, intermittent problems with our Sun 4/330
server recently.  We are running 4.0.3 and are currently (trying) to
support 4 diskless 3/80's and 10 diskless SLC's.

The 3/80's have worked fine since day one.  The problems have sprung up
around the 10 new SLC's and our new 669meg external storage unit.
Occasionally, when using the setup_client script, the server would
magically reboot itself...what fun!  Also, when trying to boot an SLC
client that I had just created using setup_client, it sometimes gets all
the way to the end of the boot process (..starting network daemons...) and
mysteriously hangs.  When I try to see whats wrong on the server end, all
the nfs daemons are dead!  Sometimes the server is so bad, the keyboard is
completely locked at a rebbot is my only option!

Has anyone else had problems supporting SLC clients with 4.0.3?  Any ideas
on why booting a new SLC client would trash the server's nfs daemons?

Any and all comments/ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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